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ADDITIONS TO THE FUNGUS FLORA 



OF TASMANIA. 



Part 3. 



By L. Rodway, C.M.G., 

 Government Botanist. 



(Read 11th October, 1920.) 



The previous notes and additions to our cryptogamic 

 flora mav be found in the Papers and Proceedings for the 

 years 1917 and 1919. 



Of those plants here recorded for Tasmania, but not 

 as new specios, fuller descriptions mav be found in Cooke's 

 Australian Fungi or in Massee's British Fungus Flora. 



Gordyceps hatotesii. This, though close to C. yuunii, 

 appears to be fairly distinct. The club is paler in colour; 

 the ' perithecia less sunk and the fertile portion ceases 

 abruptly and not imperceptibly shading away. 



It appears to be confined to the north-cast of Tas- 

 mania. 



Ascomyeet aureus, Mm/. This is the Golden Blister 

 of Black and Lombardy Poplar, common in many places 

 in Tasmania. 



Introduced with the host plant. 



A&Cocorticium tffusum, it.*. A thin crimson sheet 

 growing over dead wood and adjoining earth for ni.mv 

 centimetres j immarginate and undifferentiated into body 

 and hymeniom, asci arising direct from web-like hvphaa. 

 Asci clavate, 8 sporcd. Spores elliptic, obtuse, smooth, 

 hyaline, 12-15 x 6^. Paraphyses filiform, septate, 



slightly thickened at apex. 



On dead wood and clay. McBobie's Gully. Some- 

 thing like Trentopnlia but more crimson, very different 

 in structure. Evanescent. 



Atcoboliu tutidux, n.8. Discoid, 0.8 mm. diameter on a 

 slender stem of the same length, pale dull greenish-ochre, 

 waxy, smooth externally. Asci protruding, pyriform, 8 

 spored ; spores in an irregular group, oblong, sooty-black, 

 smooth, uniseptate, 10 x <> n 



On rotting Pona. Cascades, Hobart. 



